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Treatment focuses upon the patient‘s needs; experimentation focuses upon the researchers‘ needs, no matter how much those researchers may invoke possible or future benefits for patients.
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present | 
Treatment focuses upon the patient‘s needs; experimentation focuses upon the researchers‘ needs, no matter how much those researchers may invoke possible or future benefits for patients.
What correlates very closely to most “racial” differences in life expectancy, mortality, disease susceptibility, and survival is the race to which one is perceived as belonging.
By focusing upon the single event of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study rather than examining a centuries-old pattern of experimental abuse, recent investigations tend to distort the problem, casting African Americans‘ wariness as an overreaction to a single event rather than an understandable, reasonable reaction to the persistent experimental abuse that has characterized American medicine‘s interaction with African Americans.
This is going to be a difficult, but necessary read.
pickI just finished reading Medical Apartheid with Blaire (sorry don't know your handle!). It was a fascinating review of US medical history's exploitative relationship with Black Americans. Hard to read but important.
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“ By 1851 Cartwright had also discovered and described host of imaginary “black” diseases, whose principal symptoms seemed to be a lack of enthusiasm for slavery”
Reading this for my #bookclub that isfocused on #femalesciencewriters.
Ember is joining me in my new reading spot. Trying a honey lavender cider.
My leg collapsed under me while I was dancing around with the toddler last night. I haven't been able to walk all day. Have a cane now borrowed from a neighbor so a bit more mobile but still difficult. Good news is I have time to read, bad news is I can't get up to get the books I want so I'm reading whatever is in the room I land in. Luckily I have a bookshelf in almost every room. 😆
And for today, one that is sitting on my #BLMTBR list. I added this one to my to-read list the LAST time we were arguing about who has statues & monuments (and now that the topic has rolled back around, I‘m reminded that I wanted to read this book). It came to my attention then learning that the “Father of Modern Gynecology” who has multiple statues and did great things for women‘s health experimented on slaves, without anesthesia More info ⤵️
This book has been sitting on my shelf for years. I haven‘t touched it because I knew that it would be a heavy read. With my father battling stage 4 lung cancer and my grandmother battling Alzheimer‘s, I‘ve been extremely interested in any and all medical based book.
I‘ve only read the intro, but I‘m so excited to finish it! I found myself researching studies or events mentioned so this read could take a while.
I currently reading all three of these must have books. I love having the option of an e-reader, an audiobook and print copy. My preference is having the actual book but audiobooks are great on road trips!😊📚
It‘s Day 2 of Black History Month!
Have you created a TBR pile for the month of February?
I try....I really try not to be shocked but...really? #whatisthisish #whatthefuck
Sometimes you really have to wonder how people couldn‘t see the humanity in others! #medicalapartheid #books #medicalhistory
This book is not for the light of heart.....#books #medicalapartheid #socialjustice #readthis
This quote 😳....it‘s crazy to think that doctors could disassociate themselves from seeing the humanity and dignity in others. #books #medicalresearch #scaryshit
The City of NY announced that finally J. Marion Sims statue will be coming down. The things this man did to enslaved women....
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/nyregion/nyc-sims-statue-central-park-monu... #history #medicine #jmarionsims
I listened to an Instagram Live discussion about this today and felt the need to share this title with others.
Book 6 of 2018: “One of the most tenacious beliefs was that blacks did not feel pain or anxiety, which excused painful surgical explorations without anesthesia on blacks.” #HarrietAWashinton
I'm moving and thought I'd snap a few pics from my desk.
Masala is a spice mix. I'd like to think that describes me. A spice mix. A little heat, salt and comfort. My books from the desk are a mix of my professional and personal interests as a clinician, academic and writer. #blackwomen #feminism #queer
I've read, presented from, lectured on these books at some point.
pickGreat read. Historical analysis of medical experimentation and abuses of African Americans, from slavery to present day. Sanctioned experiments on the inmate population, unwitting poor communities, and more. Eye opening and very well assembled.
